Posted on 05/03/2011 7:43:53 PM PDT by jazusamo
Senate can’t be rubber stamp for judicial nominees who mislead Congress
The Constitution clearly delineates the power of “advice and consent” on judicial nominations to the U.S. Senate alone. Moreover, “advice and consent” means more than a rubber-stamp of the president’s nominees. It means we, as senators, have a constitutional responsibility to ensure that the nation gets the very best candidates for these appointments. Typically, those nominated are of the highest caliber, practitioners and scholars characterized by distinguished careers marked with unmistakable professional integrity.
Unfortunately, Jack McConnell does not fit this bill. Nominated to the U.S. District Court in Rhode Island, Mr. McConnell throughout his career has tended toward perverting the rule of law, rather than upholding it. A close look at Mr. McConnell’s 25-year legal career reveals a record surrounded by an ethical cloud.
Nothing characterizes this better than when Mr. McConnell came before the SenateJudiciary Committee and was asked about his familiarity with a set of stolen legal documents his law firm obtained during litigation against lead-paint manufacturers. Responding to questioning, Mr. McConnell indicated to the committee that he saw the documents “briefly” but was not familiar with them “in any fashion.” Yet only a few months later, Mr. McConnell testified in a deposition that he was the first lawyer to receive the documents in question, had drafted a newspaper editorial citing information from the documents, and reviewed and filed a legal brief under his signature incorporating the stolen documents. It is clear to me that Mr. McConnell deliberately misled the Senate by trying to downplay his role in this controversy.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Stick by your guns, Big John!
was that testimony sworn? So there’s one set of justice for Barry Bonds and another for McConnell? /semi sarc
ecerpt:
"The Judiciary Committee voted 11-7 on March 31 to send McConnell’s nomination on to the full Senate, with U.S. Sen. Lindsay Graham, R-S.C., crossing party lines to support him."
LLS
Graham votes for the lib judicial candidates because he will be outed as a homosexual as soon as he fails to approve and Democrat nominee.
Lindsay, everybody already knows you are a homosexual.
Exactly. There’s been many other lib nominees in the past he’s voted for and it won’t stop until he’s voted out of the Senate.
11 RINOs, or weak-kneed, Repbulicans voted for McConnell.
Note the familiar names in the (T) for Traitor column who voted for cloture on this murdering, lying POS.
That comes from this article:
11 Republican Senators Permit Former Planned Parenthood Director to Become Federal Judge
A laugh and a sneer is all they'll get.
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